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Completely random nanoporous Cu4O3-CuO-C composite thin films for potential application as multiple channel photonic band gap based filter in the telecommunication wavelengths

Das, Mahua and Bittencourt, C and Pireaux, JJ and Shivashankar, SA (2012) Completely random nanoporous Cu4O3-CuO-C composite thin films for potential application as multiple channel photonic band gap based filter in the telecommunication wavelengths. In: APPLIED PHYSICS A-MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING, 109 (1). pp. 245-254.

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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00339-012-7057-5

Abstract

In 2003, Babin et al. theoretically predicted (J. Appl. Phys. 94:4244, 2003) that fabrication of organic-inorganic hybrid materials would probably be required to implement structures with multiple photonic band gaps. In tune with their prediction, we report synthesis of such an inorganic-organic nanocomposite, comprising Cu4O3-CuO-C thin films that experimentally exhibit the highest (of any known material) number (as many as eleven) of photonic band gaps in the near infrared. On contrary to the report by Wang et al. (Appl. Phys. Lett. 84:1629, 2004) that photonic crystals with multiple stop gaps require highly correlated structural arrangement such as multilayers of variable thicknesses, we demonstrate experimental realization of multiple stop gaps in completely randomized structures comprising inorganic oxide nanocrystals (Cu4O3 and CuO) randomly embedded in a randomly porous carbonaceous matrix. We report one step synthesis of such nanostructured films through the metalorganic chemical vapor deposition technique using a single source metalorganic precursor, Cu-4(deaH)(dea)(oAc)(5) a <...aEuro parts per thousand(CH3)(2)CO. The films displaying multiple (4/9/11) photonic band gaps with equal transmission losses in the infrared are promising materials to find applications as multiple channel photonic band gap based filter for WDM technology.

Item Type: Journal Article
Publication: APPLIED PHYSICS A-MATERIALS SCIENCE & PROCESSING
Publisher: SPRINGER
Additional Information: Copyright for this article belongs to Springer
Department/Centre: Division of Chemical Sciences > Materials Research Centre
Date Deposited: 08 Jan 2013 07:06
Last Modified: 08 Jan 2013 07:06
URI: http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/45252

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